Posts Tagged ‘bad TV’

Kill your television

It’s things like this that made me get rid of cable television. It’s another advertisement for the 1/2 Hour News Hour on Fox News. The show is supposed to be a satire… I guess. Sean Hannity’s reaction, or lack thereof, is pretty telling.

One question rattling through my brain is, did they even test it on a real audience? The only good joke in this clip was that Rush Limbaugh was President, and amazingly they even included a laugh track on that one.

Fox and others seem to be playing up the fact that the show is being made by Joel Surnow, who also makes their hit show “24.” I guess this fact alone will get a few people to watch, but probably not past the first episode.

On a side note, I just watched my first episode of “24″ the other day. I was completely unimpressed, but I did like the sound the clock makes when it’s ticking before a commercial break. The show was full of bad acting and the plot seems to be typical of most of the night time soap operas that seem to be so popular these days.

Another reason not to watch TV

Earlier this year I heard about about a new television show on one of the radio programs that I enjoy. The new TV show would be a half hour “fake” news program in the style of The Daily Show. The difference would be that this new show, to be aired on the Fox News Channel, will have a decided right-wing slant. You can check out a clip from the pilot on YouTube.

Before I even viewed the clip above, I knew that this show was probably going to be bad at best, utterly horrible at second best, and suicidally painful at worst. It looks like my worst fears have been realized, the show is awful, at least I am assuming so from this clip. The jokes are stale, the acting is… atrocious (shutter), and the use of a laugh track with a live audience in studio is just plain insulting to both me and them!